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OF BEING TIRED
SURE AS NIGHT WILL FOLLOW DAY
MOST THINGS I WORRY ABOUT
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Wildflowers
is the second
solo studio album
by American musician
released on
November 1, 1994,
by Warner Bros. Records.
It was the first album
released by Petty
after signing
a contract with
Warner Bros.,
where he
had recorded
as part of
the Traveling Wilburys.
It was the first
of three of
his albums
produced with
Rick Rubin.
Wildflowers
was very well received
by critics upon release
and was certified
3× platinum
in the United States
by the Recording Industry
Association of America
(RIAA).
In 2020,
Wildflowers
was ranked
at number 214
on Rolling Stone's list
of the
"500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
Production
Wildflowers
was credited only to Petty
and not to his usual band,
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
because,
in Petty's words,
"Rick [Rubin] and I
both wanted more freedom
than to be strapped
into five guys."
Nonetheless,
the Heartbreakers are featured
heavily with the exception
of drummer Stan Lynch.
Petty auditioned
numerous drummers
for the album,
and eventually chose
Steve Ferrone.
Petty fired Lynch
from the Heartbreakers
just before
the album's release,
and Ferrone
officially joined
the touring band
the following year,
and later became
a full band member.
Lynch did play on
one outtake
from
Wildflowers,
"Something Could Happen"
Petty wrote and recorded
numerous songs
for the album,
and the original plan
was to have
Wildflowers
be a double album,
with 25 songs in total.
However,
Lenny Waronker
of Warner Bros. Records
felt that the album
was too long,
and it was decided to
reduce the album
to 15 tracks.
Of the 10 tracks left out, one,
"Leave Virginia Alone",
notably became a hit single
the following year
when it was recorded by
Rod Stewart,
while another four
were included,
in modified form,
in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers'
next album,
the soundtrack album
to the 1996 film
She's the One.
All ten songs,
in their original form,
were later released
in the 2020 edition
of Wildflowers,
Wildflowers & All the Rest.
Outtakes
- "Girl on LSD" was released as the B-side of the "You Don't Know How It Feels" single (1994).
- "Leave Virginia Alone" was another song written and recorded during the sessions and left off the finished album. It was given to Rod Stewart for his album A Spanner in the Works (1995).
- The songs "California", "Hope You Never", "Hung Up and Overdue", and "Climb That Hill" were all included on the She's the One soundtrack album (1996), with various edits across the first three tracks, while "Climb That Hill" was a complete remake.
- In 2018, outtake "Lonesome Dave," recorded July 23, 1993, was released on Petty's posthumous box set An American Treasure.
- In 2021, a cover of J.J. Cale's "Thirteen Days," recorded July 22, 1993, was released on the reimagined version of She's the One soundtrack album, Angel Dream.
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